The Perfect Summary Podcast
Every summary, narrated: the GIST of great conversations and books in minutes, so you can decide if you want the REST.
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Comic Eleanor Kerrigan and Joe Rogan swap Comedy Store stories, talk finding your real voice on stage, women in comedy, Ambien, and culture war tangents.
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson on human nature, why chemical rockets are an accident of history, solar geoengineering, AR, crypto and writing by hand.
Stanford biologist Garry Nolan on UFO encounters, the Atacama skeleton, strange metals, the basal ganglia and staying open-minded as a scientist.
Sebastian Maniscalco and Joe Rogan riff on turning 50, wellness overload, money and freedom, podcasting, air rage and Tyson vs. Jake Paul.
Joe Rogan and comic Brian Simpson celebrate his Netflix special and riff on fighters, Kill Tony, fame, AI, tribalism and money.
Painter Greg Overton and Joe Rogan talk art, Native American history, escaping office life, Bigfoot, solar storms and the Comanche.
Psychiatrist Paul Conti argues that trauma spreads like a hidden disease through people, families and whole societies, and that knowledge, compassion and community can treat it and even prevent it.
Steven Pressfield names the inner enemy that keeps us from our real work, Resistance, and shows how to beat it by turning pro and showing up every day.
A science journalist and a neuroscientist sort the hype from the hard evidence to show how meditation can lastingly change who we are.
A Nobel physicist's mischievous, curious, sometimes profound life stories, from cracking safes at Los Alamos to drumming samba in Brazil, ending with a famous warning against fooling yourself.
Rogan and three MMA veterans preview UFC 300, relive legendary fights, debate TRT and Jake Paul vs. Tyson, and roast Star Wars.
Zack Snyder talks with Joe Rogan about making 300 and Watchmen, Spartan culture, director's cuts, Rebel Moon, grief and why superheroes are modern myth.
Mel Robbins shares how she was diagnosed with ADHD at 47, why women are missed, how the ADHD brain works, and six surprising adult signs.
Mel Robbins turns a hilarious bodysuit wardrobe failure at an art event into a lesson on why laughing at yourself builds bonds, confidence and respect.
Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen shares simple habits, foods, supplements and thought tools to build a healthier brain and a better mind.
The Triggernometry hosts and Joe Rogan riff on conflict, parenthood, sex robots and AI, free speech, JFK, protests and why collaboration beats competition.
Joe Rogan and Kill Tony co-host Brian Redban riff on AI, comedy writing, Kill Tony's arena success, leaded gas, microplastics, lab-grown meat and EVs.
Brain coach Jim Kwik teaches Mel Robbins simple tools to read faster, remember names and keys, and ten habits for a sharper brain.
Comedian and libertarian Dave Smith joins Joe Rogan on media failures, COVID, the Israel-Gaza war, NATO, political corruption and why dogs never lose enthusiasm.
Stanford psychiatrist and optogenetics pioneer Karl Deisseroth explores what mental illness reveals about the mind, from depression to consciousness.
Robert Greene argues that greatness is a path anyone can walk: find your calling, serve a long apprenticeship, learn from mentors, read people well, and let deep immersion ripen into intuition.
A novelist turned historian argues that methamphetamine, opiates and cocaine ran through Nazi Germany, from the blitzkrieg to Hitler's own veins.
A journalist's twenty-year obsession takes apart the official story of the Manson murders and follows the threads to Hollywood secrets, a protected parolee, and the CIA's mind-control experiments.
A psychiatrist and a writer show how dopamine, the brain's chemical of anticipation, drives our love lives, ambitions, addictions, creativity and politics, and why lasting happiness means balancing it with the chemicals of the present.
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal trace Walt Disney's repeated bet-the-company gambles, from Mickey to Disneyland, and the flywheel they created.
Former Navy SEAL and novelist Jack Carr talks writing, his Beirut bombing history, AI weapons, D-Day, UFOs and JFK with Joe Rogan.
Impractical Jokers star Sal Vulcano and Joe Rogan riff on ADHD, dangerous animals, a near plane crash, AI anxiety, and the comics who built stand-up.
Harland Williams commits to absurd bits with Joe Rogan, who also remembers Phil Hartman and explains how comedy thieves operate.
Oscar-nominated documentarian Skye Fitzgerald talks starvation as a weapon of war, filming in Yemen, rescues at sea, and why the camera is a tool for change.
Joe Rogan and Duncan Trussell riff on AI, war, algorithms, psychedelics, Satanism and Jesus, landing on love as the answer to fear.